Castuner

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BBC Radio 4

Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

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663 episodes

  1. Global instability and the end of illusion 41:44
  2. John Berger and another way of seeing 41:50
  3. Napoleon’s marshals and President Trump’s civil servants 42:25
  4. Inheritance – from stories to genetics 41:46
  5. Jon Ronson: men unravelling 41:39
  6. Contains Strong Language Festival in Salford 42:12
  7. Carlo Rovelli: complexity and value 42:06
  8. Living with uncertainty 41:31
  9. Gordon Brown: The Future Starts with Us 42:07
  10. Life Online: Power, Risk and Resistance 42:19
  11. Working-Class Lives: Identity and Political Fractures 41:36
  12. Scientific discovery and misunderstanding 42:01
  13. Searching for economic solutions 42:01
  14. Mythmaking at Hay: from Medea to Rasputin 42:24
  15. Farming, food production and rural life 42:34
  16. German history 40:40
  17. Laurie Anderson: Strange and Disorientating Landscapes 41:59
  18. Chemical Reactions 42:07
  19. Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past 41:48
  20. Challenges and solutions 41:48
  21. Zoos, sex and conservation 41:27
  22. Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today 41:59
  23. Growing Up 41:46
  24. Consciousness and Identity 41:54
  25. Under the sea 41:51
  26. Reading and storytelling 41:43
  27. Thinking about war 41:52
  28. Breakage and repair 41:39
  29. Fun and games 41:37
  30. Censorship 42:00
  31. Biology, technology and the future 42:11
  32. Rethinking politics 41:35
  33. The arts and health 41:08
  34. Animals and Meaning 41:55
  35. Poetry - reading, writing, editing and translating 41:52
  36. The Dark 42:17
  37. Histories, emotions and identity 41:47
  38. Space, Quantum Frontiers and Cosmic Clues 42:00
  39. Genes and hands: mapping character and health 41:37
  40. Digital Futures and Information Crises 41:40
  41. Saving Tigers, Green Crime and Cli-fi 41:50
  42. Storytelling: Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Soweto Kinch 42:03
  43. Crossing genres with Wayne McGregor 41:56
  44. Maps – lost, secret and revealing 41:57
  45. Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes 41:43
  46. Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s civil war 41:56
  47. Steven Pinker on common knowledge 42:15
  48. Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford 42:00
  49. Afghanistan and the DRC 41:56
  50. Arundhati Roy and maternal inheritance 42:38